Can Shanghai host an international event?

Will Shanghai do it better?
via WikipediaBeijing obvious had its stadiums and sporting facilities for the Olympics later this summer in place, but otherwise the event seems to turn into the opposite of a real international event. Tourism is down and many of the potential visitors are unsure whether they can get a visa. The larger international networks are seriously at odds with the organizers in Beijing on the way they can get access to the games. Beijing is busy in issuing rules and regulations and has no clue how to create an atmosphere that goes along with an international event.
So, it is time to also have a look at Shanghai and its World Expo 2010. Would Shanghai be able to organize its event better than Beijing? When the 11th Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) would be a benchmark, the answer is a resounding "no".
When I started to cover the event at its early beginning I was in a forgiving mood. You simply cannot set up an international event like this overnight. But what I'm reading now is very troublesome, or should I say what I'm not reading. None of the international news agencies has sent anybody over and the only non-Chinese medium covering the event is the Hollywood Reporter through Maria Trombly. Her reports also are not very encouraging.

But the event around them began in disarray, as the press screening of the opening film, Chinese documentary "Olympics Dreamers," was cancelled when its print failed to arrive. Critics and reporters not told of the cancellation were left waiting near the venue at 8:30 in the morning as it rained outside.

At a later press gathering, "Memoirs of a Geisha" actress Zhang Ziyi said she had helped raise over $1 million in quake relief at the Cannes Film Festival but did not plan a campaign of similar scope in Shanghai, citing the lack of a "proper environment." She did not elaborate.

Also the names of the most famous stars at the event, Zhang Ziyi, Jackie Chan and Wong Kar Wai, show - something that also some of the Chinese media note, that Shanghai is not having an international film festival.
Will the Shanghai World Expo 2010 do better? I hope for the best, but fear the worst.
The SIFF still runs till June 22.